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Setlist for Yo La Tengo's 2010 WFMU All-Request Webcast

Ken Katkin comes through in the clutch for you all once again by compiling the setlist (available after the jump) for Yo La Tengo's annual all-request set on WFMU which took place this past Friday.  Here is the professor's take on this year's all-request set.

Yo La Tengo's annual WFMU All-Request Marathon show took place this year on the evening of Friday, March 5, 2010. Once again, I tried to keep score at home. Thanks to Jeff Tartakov for identifying "Blue Line Swinger" in the fifth set. (I am deeply embarrassed that I failed to identify that Yo La Tengo original myself). Thanks to Ira Kaplan for disclosing that the instrumental that kicked off the fourth set was "Caravan," and that in the second set "Indian Giver" was performed in medley with "Second Hand News." Ira also filled me in on some of the references in the closing medley that I didn't catch, though he thinks there were still more that he can't remember. Any help in further perfecting this list would be gratefully accepted.

Trash Flow Radio Recap

In case you missed this past weekend's edition of Trash Flow Radio hosted by Ken Katkin and special guested by yours truly, you can download MP3s of the show below.  You can download the three shows before that as well.  If you can't get enough of my radio voice, I was in the studio for the Feb. 27th show as well.

• Trash Flow Radio [03/06/10] - Part 1 Part 2 Playlist
• Trash Flow Radio [02/27/10] - Part 1 Part 2 Playlist
• Trash Flow Radio [02/20/10] - Part 1 Part 2 Playlist
• Trash Flow Radio [02/13/10] - Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Playlist

Happy Birthday to Lou Reed

As Ken Katkin pointed out on the Trash Flow Radio Facebook page (become a fan if you're not already!!!), it's Lou Reed's birthday today! Why do I get the feeling that his birthday cakes are always covered in nothing but black icing. It's like when Nigel asked, "how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black."  Happy Birthday Mr. Reed.

Ken Katkin's Best of 2009

The always popular "Best of" list from everyone's favorite Rock and Roll law professor Ken Katkin has arrived.  You can see it in all its glory below.

Top Ten New Albums of 2009 (in order):

1. VA - Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox 2CD (A Major Label) (New Zealand)
2. Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - 'Em Are I LP/CD (Rough Trade)
3. VA - Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! CD (Merge)
4. Scarpling & Wurster - A Vampire Or A Dogman CD (Merge)
5. Wussy - s/t CD (Shake It)
6. Pajo - Scream With Me LP/CD (Black Tent Press)
7. VA - Not Given Lightly: A Tribute To The Giant Golden Book Of New Zealand's Alternative Music Scene 3LP/2CD (Morr Music) (Germany)
8. Bonny Billy and The Picket Line - Funtown Comedown LP (Sea Note)
9. Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall LP/CD (Matador)
10. Home Blitz - Out Of Phase CD (Richie)

Top Twelve New Singles/EPs of 2009 (in order):

1. Cotton Candy - Fantastic and Spectacular 7"EP (Teenbeat)
2. Jeffrey Novak - Home Sweet Home 7"45 (Shattered)
3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Chijimi (Ultraload) 10" EP (Drag City)
4. Concerto Caledonia & Lisa Milne/Future Pilot AKA & Kim Fowley - "Boredom"/"Walking the Cow"/"Devil Town" Split 7"EP (Aufgeladen Und Bereit)
5. Wussy/The Fervor - "Green Belt" split 7"45 (Karate Body)
6. Pajo (featuring Bonnie Parker) - "Francie's Song" MP3 (Blazebirth)
7. Spectrum - War Sucks CDEP (Mind Expansions)
8. The Bats - Don't You Rise 7"EP (Slumberland)
9. Edie Sedgwick / Aran Epochal split 7"45 (Silver Rocket)
10. America Hearts - Fond Regards MP3-EP (Bandcamp)
11. Julie Doiron/Calm Down, It's Monday - IPU CXX Split 7" (K Records)
12. Soulsavers - "Sunrise"/"You Will Miss Me When I Burn" 7"45 (Columbia)

Tune into the Final Trash Flow Radio Broadcast of 2009

Make sure to listen to WAIF (88.3 FM) tomorrow from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM as it's your last chance to catch Trash Flow Radio in 2009.  From Camp Trash Flow:

Your last chance in 2009 to catch Ken Katkin & Jon Lorenz making radio history, one vintage 45 at a time. An epic blowout. Anything could happen (and it could be right now)! We've been living a charmed life!

What you might hear: Avant-garde punk, pop avant-garde, sad songs with loud guitars, loud songs with sad guitars, anti-Beatle exuberance, pro-drug psychedelia, bargain-bin outsider music, revisionist rock history, music made by teenagers with “sXe” tattoos, and timeless DIY. Absolutely no major label recording artists (except the Ramones). Music from the catholic school, not the parochial. Gushes and rants, stark realism and surrealism, dangerous audio stunts, irritainment, and bad puns. Faint echoes of H.L. Mencken, Coyle & Sharpe, Jorge Luis Borges, Thurgood Marshall, Ron Rosenbaum, Jean Shepard, Lester Bangs, Kim Philby, J.D. Salinger, Bob Lassiter, Carl Reiner, and Eugene V. Debs. It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another.

BTW WAIF Radio Station NEEDS MONEY! So how about pledging $25 to Trash Flow Radio?  Hell: why not announce your pledge to the world right here on this page? Fame, glory, and good karma don't often come this cheap.

You can get the details on making a pledge for WAIF and Trash Flow here.  Make sure to tell them Trash Flow sent you!

Also, if you missed last weeks show download Part 1 and Part 2 now.  Check out the playlist here.

Trash Flow Returns from the Jungle

Katkin returned from the jungles of the Yucatán peninsula this week which means everyone's favorite regularly scheduled programming has resumed.  In case you missed today's broadcast of Trash Flow Radio go ahead and download parts 1 and 2.  You can check out the setlist here.

Also, if you're interested in making a pledge to Trash Flow Radio by joining up as a WAIF member ($25 per year) you can help guarantee the show comes back next summer.  If this sounds like something you would like (and can afford) to do, send an email with your name, snail mail address, and phone number to trashflow@gmail.com and someone will be in touch with you about your pledge.

Trash Flow Radio Downloads

Hey kids!  I got sidetracked this morning and didn't have a chance to remind you all to tune into Trash Flow Radio today but hopefully you didn't need a reminder.  In case you actually do, don't forget that you can hear Trash Flow Radio every Wednesday morning all summer from 10 AM to 12 PM on WAIF 88.3 FM.  If you happened to have missed any of the previous broadcasts, you're in luck!  Trash Flow Radio host Ken Katkin has been kind enough to upload files of the majority of his shows and has placed links to them in the comments of this post.

In other Katkin's Korner news, here's an epic pic of Professor Katkin and Jad Fair (of Half Japanese) taken at the ShakeMore A Go Go Festival in Maryland this past Saturday.

One Man's Trash...

If you happened to miss last week's broadcast of Ken Katkin's Trash Flow Radio program on WAIF last week, here is the first and second halves of the show for your downloading pleasure.  You can check out a scan of the setlist here.

Check Out Trash Flow Radio Today!

Ken Katkin, is rocking the airwaves again today at WAIF.  Trash Flow Radio will be broadcasting from 10 AM until 12 noon today.  Click here to check out the live webstream.

Katkin Reviews a Trifecta of Bonnie "Prince" Billy Shows

Although I didn't take notes or obtain setlists, last week I did manage to make it to the final three shows of what has been billed as the "final tour" by Bonnie `Prince' Billy (a/k/a Will Oldham). Each show was quite different from the others, and each wonderful in its own way. In hopes that anyone is interested, here are a few random thoughts and memories about each gig.

On Thursday June 11, Will O played the Southgate House in Newport KY, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. The Southgate House is a wonderful venue, a comfortable speakeasy that has been continuously operated since the Prohibition era. It is filled with secret rooms and secret passageways, and features great sound and great sightlines. It is said to be the birthplace of the Tommy Gun! Until about 2004, the Southgate House was one of Will's most frequent tour-stops. I attended one memorable BPB show there in 2003 or 2004 at which a man in the audience stripped naked, climbed on stage, and danced right next to Will while Will unflappably continued to perform. (When the naked man finished his dance, he sheepishly asked the audience to return his clothing to him, which finally happened only after about ten awkward minutes had passed with an increasingly anxious-looking naked man lollygagging on stage).

This time, nothing quite as unexpected as a spontaneous nude dance took place, but BPB and band played a flawless 2.5-hour set to a sold-out house (capacity about 500). It seemed to me that a disproportionate proportion of the songs were ballads, slow songs, and sad songs (including a half-speed, quiet version of "I See A Darkness," plus "The Brute Choir" and "Agnes"), though Emmett Kelly vigorously disputed this charge when I later asked him about it. Will O made several between-song attempts to provoke an Ohio River controversy (by disparaging Ohio and extolling Kentucky), but the congenial half-Ohioan audience had too much love for Will to really rise to the bait and defend themselves against Will's taunting. For this show only, the first opening act was Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Review, a new Louisville-based southern-rock combo led by Brett Ralph, the man who brought coastal hardcore to Kentucky in the early 1980s. (Although almost no one outside the Bluegrass ever noticed, in 1996 Will O used his Palace Records imprint to reissue some 1985 archival recordings by Brett Ralph's second Louisville hardcore band, Fading Out). Although I missed the beginning of the Kentucky Chrome Review's set because the line to get into the building was 30 minutes long, I was highly impressed with what I heard. I also bought a copy of Brett Ralph's new book of poetry, "Black Sabbatical," which was published this month by a Louisville small press and will be worth its cover price just for its awesome cover alone. (I haven't yet had a chance to read the poetry).